What does a Consulting Architect do?
Whilst the popular view of the architect’s role in a project is to provide only the design, architects are skilled in a wide range of facets of the building industry and process. In order to obtain maximum benefit from your architect, your should engage your architect to provide full services giving the opportunity for the design intent to be fully expressed in the completed project. Full architectural services involve the architect in site evaluation, assisting in formulation of the brief and a realistic budget, design, documentation, authority approvals, tendering the work and contract administration. Throughout this process, the architect can be involved in the co-ordination of other consultants and cost and quality control. As with other professionals, architects tend to specialize and it is generally wise to engage an architect experienced with the type of project you are interested in building. Many architects are able to provide other specialist services such as landscape design
